I had changed the virtual network on my xp virtual computer which caused the freeze up error. When I change it back to the intel virtual nic the virtual xp connected to fog and I created and restored an image with no issues.

Thank you everyone. Hopefully this will help someone else in future. My distribution was Centos 6.5 and FOG 1.20.

Everyone this was my problem. You have to take the user and password from the fog storage nodes under the fog system settings and put them into a hidden file in the opt/fog directory .fogsettings config file. After I did this the image created successfully without complaining about the ftp password. I will now try to drop the new image onto a new computer and see how I make out, but I think this will do it for me. Wow I have struggled with this for two weeks now. I like the concept of the fog imaging server and will now be able to really test it out.

Like everything else in life if you don’t struggle with it you will never learn anything. I learned a lot about linux by setting this up.

Thanks again.